Laravel 8. Seeder class does not exist

This problem is not new, but I’ve looked and tried all the proposed solutions in other threads with no success. I’m working with Laravel 8 with Homestead, is a new installation on a Windows 10 machine, not an upgrade. I’m trying to seed a file called HotelSeeder.php. When I run the command

php artisan db:seed

I get the next error:

My HotelSeeder class goes like this:

My DatabaseSeeder class goes like this:

Both classes are located in the directory database/seeders

Autoload in composer.json goes like this:

After I run vagrant up and vagrant ssh, the commands that I’m running are:

php composer auto-load

php artisan db:seed

And the error shows up.

I’ve tried also:

php artisan db:seed --class=HotelSeeder

php artisan migrate:fresh –seed

php artisan clear:cache

php artisan optimize

Nothing seems to work. I hope you can help me.

Answer

Your seeder class is named DatabaseSeedersHotelSeeder. In your DatabaseSeeder.php file you should remove the alias for HotelSeeder as that is saying you want to alias a class from the root namespace named HotelSeeder which is not your class. If you remove that alias then the reference to HotelSeeder will actually be your correct class, DatabaseSeedersHotelSeeder because the current namespace of this file is DatabaseSeeders so all class references are to that namespace.

Remove: use HotelSeeder;

Just a PHP namespacing thing.